By: Catherine A Mitchell

Catherine A Mitchell — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 14:29:32 +0000

Glad I listen to this podcast and understand what organic means. I was always a little fuzzy on the word organic. These are interesting pod casts. We have a few people that grow organic and I sometimes go to a gardening club just to learn more about the food that we grow in our own fields. Thank you.

By: Suzanne Wood

Suzanne Wood — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 20:56:36 +0000

Thank you, Margaret, Linley Dixon, and Hugh Kent (via video).
Truly eye-opening. I’ve heard and read about hydroponics but never appreciated the environmental consequence to ‘soil’ and the problem of spent water, plastic waste, lack of pollinators, and the true story of hydroponically grown foods. I greatly appreciated this podcast for its further unveiling of what constitutes ‘organic’ farming in America–once known for its quality organic, naturally enriched soils, producing tasty vegetables.
Mr. Kent’s video and supporting photos are mind-bending when one appreciates the volume of imported products, e.g., Mexico-grown hydroponic blueberries, flooding the U.S. (and elsewhere?) market without any education to the consumer about the chemicals used without soil to ‘grow’ food, the environmental impact and lasting devastation to the soil, runoff and/or holding ponds/water table, effect on migrating birds/ducks — endless concerns.
I’m a home gardener in Southeast Alaska/Tongass National Forest–supposedly Zone 7, our micro-climate is more a 6. We have a number of covered raised beds for growing carrots, leeks, squash, lettuces, irrigated by an Alaska water rights protected mountain stream which feeds our creek–we are not hooked up to our island’s water as we’re too far out the road.
Our raised beds are covered due to erosion from volumes of rain, wind, occasional hail. We have a Growing Spaces 15′ dome for year-round growing of carrots, peppers, broccoli, spinach, collards, peas–vegetables we prefer to grow year-round and not buy from our local grocery store. We use LED lights in the fall/winter to supplement the lack of sunshine.
We collect pop-weed seaweed and mix with vegetable/table scraps for composting. We don’t use pesticides, soil manures or fertilizers.
Ms. Dixon’s and Mr. Kent’s photos were excellent supplements to their wealth of information. Thank you, again, Margaret for this another excellent podcast.

By: Virginia

Virginia — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 20:55:01 +0000

Very very interesting! Thank you.

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